Looking for monster hard disk

[KillerBug]

I am looking for a 40gb+ hard disk.

It has to be either either ata66 or ultra wide scsi 2.

I am looking for a relativly cheap drive, but it needs to hit the following specs...

7200rpm
ata66 must have 2mb cache

any ideas?

[grandslammer]

No killer, but I'd sure like one too...

Mikey

[Warthog]

Sorry, I don't know where you can get one individually but you can buy a 40gb 7200RPM hard drive with a Dell Dimension B Series computer. Doesn't help you much but at least you know that they're out there...

Warthog

[KillerBug]

I also there is a 73gb drive shipping in deep blues...with enough brothers and sisters to make about 3 terabytes...

[Dominus]

Largest ATA66 7200RPM drive is here:

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/...sk/ds75gxp.htm

[jadison]

so 100GB = 1TB

oh...I though it was 1000GB = 1TB...oh well

-jd-

[daveleau]

Pretty sure it's 1000GB=1TB
Dave

[smokin1]

Actually you're both close
1024 megabytes= 1 terrabyte

I know, useless info...

[seti]

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40.

Fastest ata drive on the shelves.

I don't think there's anything bigger avalible just yet. You can always wait. The new 75GXP is going to use glass platters instead of aluminum. Apparently they can pack more data/platter in there because glass expands less with heat.

Press Release

They're claiming it's going to be the first to break the sustained data transfer rate barrier of 33mb/s (37mb/s). It's funny, they just start taping the capabilities of ata66, and they move to ata100.

Anyway, should be a screamer.




[This message has been edited by seti (edited 03-29-2000).]

[psyklone]

smokin1 ...

actually 1024 megabytes= 1 Gig

i know, useless correction...

[Colonel Casio]

Maxtor is coming out with a 60 gig HD, but it has a spindle speed of 5400.

[Prospero]

I have one of the maxtor diamond max plus's, and it does indeed scream. I bought it to use for video capture on my marvel g400 and I have yet to see it hickup. You should be able to find it for a little less than $300.

[Axel]

Ahhhhh - the ability to loose soooo much data all at once when the drive finally crashes -

Use a RAID array, my son - and you'll thank me after you replace the first drive that crashes without losing any data.....

There are SCSI and IDE RAID solutions out there - take a look at promise technologies - they've got all sorts of goodies, and the logical drive is seen as one unit and access speed is actually faster than a 7500 RPM single drive for RAID solutions....

thing is, they don't come cheap - but the savings are in the back-up media you'll never need and the hours of lost time you'll never miss restoring from back-up....

[BBA]

KB...CompUSA just had a sale for 40G Maxtor 7200RPM drives w/2M cache for $249.00

I know 4 people who bought them.

It's over now, but they still have the drives.

[Missing the point]

I know of a 73 GB 10,000 RPM drive! Its only $2,300 CDN though........